The rise of the penitentiary : prisons and punishment in early America / Adam Jay Hirsch.
"Before the nineteenth century, American prisons were used to hold people for trial and not to incarcerate them for wrong-doing. Only after independence did American states begin to reject such public punishment as whipping and pillorying and turn to imprisonment instead. In this legal, social,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[1992]
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| Series: | Yale historical publications (Unnumbered)
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Main Collection
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HV9304 .H57 1992 |
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| Status: | Available Request this item |